SpicyIP

JULY 28, 2021

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Yashi Agrawal on India’s recent accession to the Locarno Agreement, discussing inter alia the resultant amendments to India’s design laws and prospective benefits to India on becoming a part of the Locarno Special Union and Assembly. Yashi Agrawal. India and the Locarno Agreement.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. In particular, Section 1213.2

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More Than Your Mark

AUGUST 20, 2021

At its core, 3-D printing uses computer code in a computer-aided design (CAD) file to instruct specially designed printers to print three-dimensional physical objects one layer at a time. The functionalities and any new and unobvious structures created by 3-D printing technologies may be the subject of a utility or a design patent.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Next up today, Judy Harrison at the Bangor Daily News reports that Maine costume designer Ellen Okolita has filed a lawsuit against Walmart, Amazon and eBay alleging that the three sites are unlawfully using photos and descriptions of her costumes on their site.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The engine that runs the bitcoin ledger that Nakamoto designed is called the blockchain; the original and largest blockchain is the one that still orchestrates bitcoin transactions today. Blockchain technology was separated from currency in 2014, and that advance opened the door for using blockchain for applications beyond currency.

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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2023

The threshold for design protection in the EU is low. The design must be new and have individual character ( Art. 4(1) Community Design Regulation , ‘CDR’). The purpose of this grace period is to allow the designer or its successor to test the products in which the design is embodied in the market ( Recital 20 CDR ).

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2025

Background In 2014, the company Sophienwald applied for the following EU trade mark : It covered non-monetary coins in class 14 and beverage glassware; materials [cloths] for polishing; wine glasses in class 21. Both decisions concern applications for invalidity of an (almost) identical trade mark.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The Ordinance came into effect back in 1997 and incorporates a substantial part of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 of the UK. To this end, since 2006, the Government has conducted rounds of major consultations and introduced two amendment bills in 2011 and 2014 into the Legislative Council. 528) (“ the Ordinance ”).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even a mark that has been on the International Registry for 40 years does not assure registration of a subsequent national designation. On 12 January 2022, the Lithuanian Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the Lithuanian designation of Chanel SARL’s two-dimensional trademark (see below) in Class 3 for perfumery products.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

by Dennis Crouch As its name suggests, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is designed to substantially overturn the Supreme Court's decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. 208 (2014). Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. , 66 (2012), and Alice Corp. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TTAB gave little weight to the fact that the agency has issued registration certificates on many different shoe designs. Lee , 1:13-CV-1464 AJT/JFA, 2014 WL 5500799, at *1 (E.D. Alternatively, the case should be remanded for consideration of the issue of functionality. TBL Complaint. 8, 2016) (“The parties have agreed that.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Background of the case On 26 October 2018, the Estonian company Eco Oil OÜ filed the following EU Registered Design No. The decision The BoA focused its attention on the (unproven) disclosure of prior designs under Article 7 CDR by means of printed screenshots of web pages. 5809746-0001 (the contested RCD).

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. 2014)??(?)???2815?). Article 2.4 Article 2.4

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Originally posted 2014-05-23 12:53:57. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe District of Arizona ruled today in a case we defended through trial and have reported on here extensively.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2024

A famous Kat Facts Puma SE filed an application to register a Community design on 26 July 2016. The design represents different views of a trainer, falling within class 02-04 of the Locarno Agreement. Handelsmaatschappij J. On 21 April 2021, Puma SE appealed against the decision of the Invalidity Division.

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Patently-O

JUNE 11, 2024

Ten years ago – 2014 – the Supreme Court decided Alice Corp v. GM is perhaps as dramatic a change for the design patent arena as Alice was for utility patents. The overall effect is to make it easier to find a design patent obvious. Vidal released examination guidance to the design corps the next day.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that. respectively.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. Overview of current legislation in China.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal. It’s worth noting that McCorquodale says she worked on the book for two years without pay and also paid out of pocket for aides and design work. Between 2009 and 2019, she held a very lucrative position at the Santa Clara County government.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

GM Global Technology to rule on the issue of whether the current test for determining obviousness of design patents, i.e., the Rosen/Durling Standard, is proper in view of the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in KSR v. Under the current Standard, the range of applicable prior art combinations in design cases is limited. 2d at 391).

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IPilogue

APRIL 14, 2022

a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. It sued H&M for copyright infringement, claiming that H&M used their copyright-protected designs in its clothes. Unicolors, Inc.,

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Background Katy Perry during the Prismatic tour in 2014. The trade mark application was filed by an Australian fashion designer, who was born Katie Jane Perry but has also gone by the names Katie Howell and Katie Taylor (called "Ms Taylor" in the judgment). Wikimedia : Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. That court found that most of Prince’s work was non-infringing (though several works still were) and the two sides ultimately settled the case in March 2014. 1: The Shepard Fairey Dispute.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Over the last 20 years, the total number of design patents issued per year in the United States has erupted. As illustrated in the graph below and further highlighted in this animated graph, in the 30 year period between the years 1971 and 2000 a total of nearly 219,000 design patents were issued by the U.S.

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The IPKat

JUNE 12, 2022

The analysis covers the years 2014 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. The report measured an industry’s usage of patents, trade marks, and designs, and normalised based on total employment in that industry. of industries for designs, compared to 55% for patents. This paper.

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Patently-O

APRIL 12, 2024

By Dennis crouch The international IP community is moving toward further harmonizing legal protection for industrial designs. In the US, these are design patent rights. ” Several years ago, the US implemented the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague System).

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Paramount, Universal, Warner, Columbia, Disney, and Netflix teamed up to file the complaint in 2021, hoping to shut down a site that had endured blocking injunctions since 2014 while serving millions of users worldwide. All members of the MPA, the studios won a default judgment and injunction in April 2022.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 11, 2024

“From 2014/15 to 2024, 9 thousand strings were disabled, from February this year to May with Piracy Shield almost 18 thousand strings and internet addresses saturating the structures. “[The blocking] infrastructure was designed to receive 60/70 operators, today it has 300.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, rightsholders and ISPs solved these problems by signing a Code of Conduct which ensures that when one ISP is ordered to block, others follow voluntarily. Part of the problem is that to have pirate domains blocked, rightsholders need to have authorization from the court.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2022

Comment This case clearly demonstrates that whether a sign is deceptive must be assessed having regard to both the sign and the designated product. As noted by judges from this Court, in the six years since the court’s establishment in 2014, they received more than 1,000 administrative cases involving deceptive trade marks.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2021

Innovative Cosmetic Concept filed for international registration of the word INCOCO and designated European Union for the registration in January 2014. The applicant Chanel opposed this mark in October 2014 and relied on its own earlier mark (French) nos. 1 438 544 and 1 571 046.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

That’s by design–the DMCA was designed to resolve matters outside of court. 663 (2014) (“It is hardly incumbent on copyright owners, however, to challenge each and every actionable infringement”). Now, imagine the rightsowner also overclaimed trade dress protection for its sage leave design.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Fish Principals Craig Deutsch , Jennifer Huang , and Grace Kim , discuss challenging design patents at the PTAB in their Law360 Expert Analysis article. Challenging design patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is difficult — nearly two-thirds of petitions directed to design patents have been denied institution.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This innovative patent introduces a fabric designed for eco-friendly and reusable gift presentation. 11, 2014 This inventive patent describes a special formulation that allows you to create snow-like decorations that are not only visually appealing but also edible. 03, 2015 A revolutionary approach to sustainable gift wrapping.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 11, 2024

In India, whistle-blowing is governed by the Whistle Blowers Protection Act 2014 and by the Companies Act, 2013. While the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2014 is limited to public sector undertakings and public servants, it does not include private corporate entities.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 22, 2024

The Paris court noted that the site “encouraged the infringement of copyright and related rights by setting up tools specifically designed for the mass and illicit sharing of protected content.” The case is listed for hearing on April 8, 2014. ” “The operators are located in India,” the MPA informed the USTR.

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